COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

ANNUAL REPORT

ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012

EMILY McDERMOTT, INTERIM DEAN

July 2, 2012

Introduction

AY 2011-2012 was a year marked by significant forward motion on many fronts in the College of Liberal Arts.

Programmatically, Fall 2012 will see the implementation of the new PhD in Developmental and Brain Science, the new MA in Applied Economics, and the new graduate certificate in Survey Research in the Sociology Department, as well as announcement of and pre-enrollment in the BA in Communication approved by the BOT and BHE in Spring 2012. PhD proposals in Applied Linguistics and Sociology have been shepherded through the on-campus governance process and are at the President’s level, at the stage of external site reviews; a preliminary (Stage 1) proposal for an International Relations BS degree, housed in Political Science, has just been sent to the Provost's Office; CLA is collaborating with UC on a Global Studies BS program to be housed in UC, but with significant contributions by CLA faculty; and preliminary conversations have been undertaken with faculty concerning development of interdisciplinary curricular initiatives in History of Science/Science and Society (UG minor, MA); Film Studies (UG minor); Atlantic Studies (PhD); and Religious Studies (UG minor, then BA).

In the area of student success initiatives:

We completed the second year of our CLA First! Program with encouraging results. For AY 12-13, we will add a fourth cohort of 25 students, expanding the program from 75 to 100 students and making the affiliated Start Smart program available to all incoming first-year students in CLA, regardless of whether they enroll in CLA First!

We have taken several important steps not only toward improving advising in the majors, but also toward building an enhanced culture of advising among college faculty.

CLA has partnered with the Provost's Office, OGSR, and the Honors Program to initiate a pilot UG research program, to begin in the Fall 2012 semester.

Probably the most exciting progress in the college this year falls in the area of faculty.

We have made encouraging strides toward replenishing our tenure-stream faculty. Two new faculty members joined our ranks in January 2012 (one replacement, one new line). In Fall 2012 we will have the great pleasure of welcoming to campus three replacement faculty who were recruited in AY 2010-11 but deferred their starts by a year; seven replacement faculty recruited this year; and eight faculty recruited this year on new lines. Three more successful searches will result in deferred starts in January or September 2013; three searches failed and will be renewed during AY 2012-13.

The CLA Dean’s Office, Chairs, faculty, and CLA Senate, in consultation with the FSU (and with the authorization of the upper administration), are actively engaged in planning for a revenue-neutral College shift to a 2-2 teaching load, with a pilot program to be implemented in Spring 2013. Chairs are presently designing their Spring 2013 schedules to fit agreed-upon provisional implementation guidelines, while five faculty taskforces prepare recommendations (due October 1, 2013) on particular points of implementation. The final proposal (for implementation in Fall 2013, following the pilot semester) should

go to Chairs and Senate, then Dean and Provost, for separate approvals in November-December, 2012.

FSU bargaining for the FY ’13-14 bargaining agreement has resulted in creation of an entitlement program by which each tenure-stream faculty member in the University will be reimbursed for up to $1000 in expenses incurred for travel to present scholarly papers. In CLA, depending on our final budget picture for FY ’13, we anticipate increasing this amount to $1500. This is an important step forward in our ongoing efforts to provide faculty with the kind of support for scholarly activity normally associated with a research-intensive university.

This year’s round of AQUAD reviews in CLA, as so often, paints a picture – from an objective external standpoint – of superb departments, full of devoted teachers and scholars, achieving wonderful things despite sometimes severe constrictions in resources and infrastructure. Faculty and staff in the College remain committed to the University’s ambitious goals of developing new academic programs (especially at the graduate level) and ratcheting up the faculty’s productivity in research and scholarship, while at the same time focusing on a variety of much-needed student-success initiatives. As will become clear from the appendix to this report, faculty productivity and engagement in transformational initiatives is already high (2010-11 AFRs show CLA faculty producing approximately 43 creative works, 27 books, 66 book chapters, and 143 articles in that year). Yet we achieve everything we do in a context of ever-straitened resources—human, fiscal, and physical. This report serves both as a testimony to progress made and a reminder that in some areas, as we strive for general University and College growth and enhancement, we are pressing at the outer edges of a sustainable operation.

Goals for 2011-2012

The College’s goals for AY 2011-2012 (as stated in last year’s annual report) are listed below, with the current status of each. These goals were taken verbatim from the College’s 2011-2015 Strategic Plan; it was specifically conceded in listing them as last year’s goals that not all would be prioritized this year.

Advance Student Success and Development

Continue expansion, evaluation, and improvement of CLA First!We have continued to build our cohort student-success program, CLA First. For Fall 2012 we are adding a 4th cohort of 25, for a total of 100 students enrolled. We are also expanding our Start Smart Program to make it available to all interested entering CLA students, whether or not they sign up for CLA First.

Continue improvement of department advising systems.We have done significant work with CLA departments and faculty in general to improve advising within the majors. New initiatives this year include:

o Implementation of mandatory faculty advising for all declared CLA majors in order for students to be able to register for the following semester

o Requiring faculty to record data on their meetings with advisees (when they occur and through what medium), in order to collect data on present practices/student behavioral patterns that will inform future development of advising initiatives

o Requiring departments to assign advisors to all declared majorso Putting mandatory advising holds on students in academic peril (Spring

2012) and (for Fall 2012) on all CLA declared majors, to assure that students have to be advised before registering for classes.

These initiatives have occasioned some pushback from faculty, which we have been working to dispel through meetings and development programs, and especially by creating and convening a Majors Advising Committee made up of faculty reps committed to improving advising, who will communicate with their peers and advocate for best practices within departments, on an ongoing basis. This committee’s first report was distributed to all department chairs in June 2012.

Create benchmarks that indicate whether students are on target for graduation and develop interventions for those who are not.The University-wide Graduation Rates Committee has created such benchmarks. They are:

o FYS, Freshman Comp, and QR by end of first year (or by 30 credits)o Intermediate Seminar and WPR by 60-75 credits (or by first semester of

junior year)These benchmarks have informed ongoing CLA development of 4-year graduation plans for each major (see next bullet).

Intervention initiatives undertaken by the Office of CLA Initiatives for Students during AY 2011-12 have been:

o Collaboration with the University Advising Center to design a one-credit course for students on probation and for students readmitted after suspension (still in process)

o Creation of a mandatory intrusive advising program for declared CLA students in academic jeopardy (Alert, Probation, Extended Probation) These students now receive a separate registration hold which can be

removed only by the Office of CLA Initiatives for Students These students have a dedicated advisor who does intrusive advising We are creating a blog with periodic information for these students, as

well as those on Academic Warning

Characteristics of the Program: The pilot program started in late March 2012. Outreach and advising

took place from 4/3/12 to 6/1/12 108 declared CLA students on probation, alert and a small group on

warning received an Advising/Academic Standing hold, which prevented them from registering for the Fall, 2012 semester

25 of the 108 students had already withdrawn from the University for the spring semester, leaving 83 students in the program

65 of these 83 students met with the probation advisor with the result that Out of the 65 students who received advising through this program in

spring 2012, 48 (or 73.8%) increased their GPA in that semester All students who received specialized, intrusive advising created an

academic plan to get back on track next semester

Implement requirements that assure that students progress through the intellectual levels of the curriculum in an orderly way [e.g., require that all CLA graduates complete one third or one fourth of their course work at the 300/400 level or require both a major and a minor].Pursuant to a request from VC Kathleen Teehan, VP Joan Becker, and the Graduation Rates Committee, CLA Departments have been preparing and submitting template four-year graduation plans. These plans will provide students with sample semester-by-semester course selections that will enable them to complete their general education and major requirements in a four-year period. 12 CLA departments out of 18 have submitted these plans; 6 remain in preparation.

Publicize and promote internship opportunities for undergraduates.Making progress on this goal will be prioritized for AY 12-13.

Publicize and promote study abroad opportunities.The College and the University as a whole offer or subscribe to many study-abroad programs, but a regrettably low percentage of UMB students avail themselves of these opportunities. Although 52-71% of UMB students availing themselves of these opportunities each semester from Summer, 2011-Summer, 2012 were CLA students, the actual numbers of those students are distressingly low (83 students within CLA, 138 in the University as a whole). We should resist taking false comfort from the fact that CLA’s profile (1.7% of its headcount students participating in a study-abroad program) very modestly exceeds that for the University as a whole (1.15% of headcount students participating in a study-abroad program). Making progress on this goal will be prioritized for AY 12-13.

By the terms of her contract offer letter, Professor Lin Zhu-Kazamzadeh, a new hire in the Communication Department who specializes in Intercultural Communication, is expected, as part of her normal service obligation to the University, to work with the Office of International and Transnational Affairs to develop collaborative programs, especially study abroad programs.

Use work-study and campus employment as tools to engage students and thus improve retention and graduation rates.Preliminary work toward this goal will be undertaken in AY 12-13.

In cooperation with the wider University, develop programs to assist students on academic probation.The Office of CLA Initiatives for students has this year designed and implemented a pro-active intervention program to advise students in academic peril. The program

is described in detail above, under the bullet headed “Create benchmarks that indicate whether students are on target for graduation and develop interventions for those who are not.”

Enrich and Expand Academic Programs and Research

Make and implement a faculty hiring plan.The goal for faculty hiring within the college enunciated in Dean Kuizenga’s annual report for AY 2010-11 was to ‘institute an aggressive hiring plan, of approximately 20 faculty per year (10 new positions, 10 replacement positions per year).” Counting only those recruited during AY 2011-2012, we have successfully hired precisely 20 new faculty members (8 on replacement lines, 12 on new lines). Of these, 2 joined us in January 2012; 15 will join us in September 2012; 1 will arrive on campus in January 2013; and the final 2 have deferred till September 2013. Three additional searches failed this year and will be renewed in AY 2012-13.

Continue to expand hiring of faculty with global interests and curriculum offerings with international focus.Faculty hired during AY 2011-2012 recruiting season with global interests include:

o Maria Aguilar Solano (Latin American and Iberian Studies): Spanish translation

o James Dobreff (Classics): Neo-Latin to 18th century, Daniel Rohlander in Surinam

o Sana Haroon (Asian Studies/History): South Asian historyo Véronique Hélénon (Africana Studies): African history and diaspora;

Caribbean history and cultureo Ayesha Irani (Asian Studies): History, culture and literature of South Asiao Benjamin Johnson (History): Latin American historyo Megan Klein-Hattori (Sociology): Medical sociology, with research focus on

Tanzaniao Charalampos Konstantinidis (Economics): Economy of Greece, European

Uniono Temitope Oriola (Sociology): Kidnapping and transnational organizations in

Nigeriao Olivia Weisser (History): History of medicine in early modern Europeo Lin Zhu-Kazamzadeh (Communication): Intercultural Communicationo Among the 3 failed searches from AY 2011-12, which will be renewed in AY

2012-13, were searches for an Associate Professor of Political Science specializing in International Relations and an Assistant Professor of History specializing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Expand opportunities for hiring/development of post-doctoral programs.The English Department has been authorized to recruit to replace one of its two post-doc positions from last year and is in the process of this recruitment. Progress on this goal has been slowed because requests for new lines for post-docs were not able to be filled in AY 2011-12.

Continue expansion of graduate programs in carefully selected niches with high demand and in consonance with the existing availability of faculty resources.

o Fall 2012 will see implementation of the PhD in Developmental and Brain Sciences, the MA in Applied Economics, and the graduate certificate in Survey Research in the Sociology Department.

o Stage II proposals for PhD degrees in Applied Linguistics and Sociology are presently at the President’s Office awaiting approval.

o Preliminary work toward development of a PhD in Atlantic Studies and an MA in History of Science/Science and Society is presently underway.

Develop select undergraduate interdisciplinary programs in areas of demonstrated need and demand.

o The Communications BA degree was approved by BOT and BHE in Spring 2012. It will be announced and open to students for pre-enrollment in Fall 2012 but will not be fully implemented till Fall 2013, because to be admitted to the major students will be required to have satisfactorily completed a 4-course pre-major sequence in the department.

o A Stage I proposal for the International Relations major in the Political Science Department is presently awaiting approval at the Provost’s level.

o CLA will contribute to the Global Studies major/completion program proposed by University College (Stage I proposal presently at the President’s Office)

o Planning is underway in the college for new undergraduate minor programs in Film Studies, Religious Studies (presently on moratorium), and History of Science/Science and Society (inter-college)

New degree programs [listed in order of estimated implementation dates]:o Developmental and Brain Science PhD: Fall 12o MA in Applied Economics: Fall 12.o Graduate Certificate in Survey Research Methods: Fall 12o Substantially revised major in Latin American and Iberian Studies, in

renamed department: Fall 12o Communications major: Fall 12-Fall 13 o International Relations major: Fall 13o South Asia track of Asian Studies major: Fall 13o PhD in Applied Linguistics: Fall 14o PhD in Sociology: Fall 14

Participate in and develop synergies with University-wide programs and programs in other schools and colleges.

o The CLA and MGS Deans met in AY 2012-13 to discuss ways that collaborations between the two colleges may be facilitated; they subsequently convened relevant chairs from both units, who have continued to meet to work toward this goal.

o CLA and UC are working together toward the proposed UG major/continuation program in Global Studies

o An intercollege UG minor (CLA-CSM-UC) in History of Science/Science and Society is presently in preliminary stages of study

Examine formation of interdisciplinary research clusters.

Further work toward this goal will be undertaken in AY 2012-13.

Foster closer collaboration with the Centers and Institutes. Further work toward this goal will be undertaken in AY 2012-13.

Increase attention to grant-funded research potential in hiring criteria.Attention to this goal has informed CLA recruitment and hiring in AY 2012-13. Further work toward this goal will be undertaken in AY 2012-13.

Increase extramural funding in CLA.In FY ’12, the College of Liberal Arts generated $3.1M in new extramural funds, $617,000 of which were indirect costs. When funds from ongoing grants are included, CLA generated over $4.5 million in grants, with indirect costs of $807,274. These figures represent an increase of almost 30% over FY ’10 grant activity, as summarized in last year’s annual report.

Pursue new international collaborations while strengthening current partnerships. o We kicked off the new exchange agreement between UMB and Renmin

University in China (signed in Spring 2011) in Spring, 2012: 3 Renmin graduate students took courses at UMB in Spring, 2012 (1 in the MA in American Studies, 1 in the MA in Applied Linguistics, 1 in the MA in English); 3 CLA faculty (2 from American Studies, one from English) will give courses at Renmin during the Summer term, 2012.

o In Fall 2012, the CLA Dean will be pursuing the possibility of initiating a new exchange agreement between UMB and Ionian University on Corfu in Greece.

Expand on-line offeringsCLA online offerings (UG + grad combined) increased from 180 courses in AY 2010-2011, to 200 in AY 2011-12, representing an increase of 11%. The pattern of increase was steady, with increases each term in that period. This goal will be further prioritized in AY 2012-13.

Improve Learning, Teaching, and Working Environment

Continue expansion and refinement of learning outcomes assessment procedures through AQUAD. Move to implementation in departments that have completed AQUAD reviews.

CLA is in the process of incorporating learning outcomes assessment procedures into its AQUAD review cycle.

o Africana Studies, Art, and Economics did AQUAD reviews in AY 2009-10. Art and Economics have working protocols, which will be implemented this summer; Africana Studies will be revising their protocol this summer to fit their new curriculum.

o English and History conducted AQUAD reviews in AY 20010-11. Both have working protocols, which will be implemented this summer.

o Anthropology, Political Science, and Women’s Studies did AQUAD reviews in AY 2011-12. They will implement the protocols described in their self-studies for the first time this summer.

o American Studies and Sociology will do AQUAD reviews in AY 2012-13. Two faculty from each of those departments will be compensated this summer to develop assessment protocols for those reports.

Increase number of large courses to balance with small course sections and to expose more students to tenure-stream faculty.The CLA 2-2 initiative is predicated on institution of an increased number of large lecture sections. A Large-Enrollment Classes Taskforce is actively working on the questions of how to institute additional large sections without negative pedagogical outfall and within the infrastructure limits on campus. CLA departments are at this moment projecting addition of up to 21 large sections in Spring 2013. This is an exciting breakthrough for strategic planning purposes, since traditionally there has been significant resistance among CLA faculty to moving to large lecture sections.

Continue progress toward a research friendly teaching load.Over the Spring 2012 semester, CLA has been actively planning for (and is now fully committed to) piloting a 2-2 faculty workload in Spring 2013, while remaining revenue-neutral. College faculty are presently working on 5 taskforces to develop recommendations that will inform the final proposal, which is expected to be brought for governance and Dean’s approval in November-December 2012 and implemented in Fall, 2013.

Actively participate in planning for the new academic building and for classroom renovations to assure availability of sufficient numbers of classrooms of the right size with the right technology for both undergraduate and graduate offerings.The CLA Dean’s Office and the faculty of the Departments of Performing Arts and Art have been actively participating with University planners and Wilson Architects, to assure that the departments’ programmatic needs are met by the design of the new building. The Dean has participated fully in executive group meetings concerning University strategies to adapt the building design to a shifting budgetary context.

Investigate best administrative mechanisms for interdisciplinary offerings and implement those that are the most feasible.

In recruiting faculty for the interdisciplinary Asian Studies program, relevant parties developed a template for structuring joint faculty appointments in the College and applied it to the hiring of Assistant Professor Sana Haroon, who will arrive on campus in Fall 2012 with an appointment in Asian Studies and tenure home in the History Department. We expect that our experience drafting and implementing this protocol will help guide future interdepartmental and even intercollegiate joint appointments.

Establish a financial resource model consistent with the university’s vision statement

Ensure adequate resources for the successful launches and development of new graduate and undergraduate programs, by staging implementations over time.See planned implementation schedule for new programs above

Seek opportunities for supplemental fees in coordination with university-wide expanded use of this revenue source.Feasibility and desirability of this goal will be further examined in AY 2012-13.

Explore opportunities to cooperate with University College to create programs that will generate revenue for CLA.CLA is committed to contributing faculty resources (primarily from the Political Science Department, but secondarily from other CLA departments as well) to a major/completion program in Global Studies to be offered by University College. As part of the agreement struck, the Political Science Department will contribute four sections per year to the program, while in return University College will fund a tenure-stream faculty appointment in the Political Science Department.

Resume program to rationalize departmental budgets and obtain sufficient resources to adequately fund departments.This admirable goal has had to be deferred, given the rather chaotic budget situation of AY 2011-12. Assuming the University budget picture stabilizes in AY 2012-13, we will resume work toward this goal.

APPENDIX List of Selected Faculty Activities by Category

(most from 10-11 AFRs, but some from 11-12 contributions to the Provost’s Monthly Report to the Chancellor)

Service and Community Outreach

Africana Studies

Robert Johnson - Board Member, United South End Settlements, Boston, Massachusetts. He also served as a Board Member, Boston Natural Areas Fund, Boston, Massachusetts.

American Studies

Bonnie Miller - has shared her knowledge with national radio audiences on the subject of violent women in American literature and culture.

Rachel Rubin, Judith Smith, and Jeffrey Melnick (and Professor Emerita Lois Rudnick) - have all participated in teacher training through several non-profit organizations. Rachel Rubin - was featured weekly as a commentator on contemporary popular culture for WGBH radio's Callie Crossley and also serves as a host for WUMB's Commonwealth Journal. Aaron Lecklider - in conjunction with the Kennedy Library, coordinated the annual Summer Institute for Teachers. Lynnell Thomas - has worked on curriculum for the Weymouth public school system. Anthropology

Ping-Ann Addo – served on the Executive board of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. She also served on the Pacific Island Scholars Fund Committee for the Assoc. for Social Anthro in Oceania.

Patrick Clarkin – was a Guest Speaker, KIPP Lynn, Lynn, Massachusetts (April-May 2011).

Tim Sieber – was a Committee Member, Boston Promise Initiative/Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Boston, MA. He was a member during Spring 2011 of the Higher Education working group, focusing on planning for high school/college/career transitions. This group's thinking became part of DSNI's final Promise Initiative proposal to the US Department of Education. He was also a Board Member, Brazilian Immigrant Center,

Boston, MA.

Steve Silliman - served on the Native American community, Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, North Stonington, CT. (January 30, 2002 - Present).

Judith Zeitlin- served as a Board Member, Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, Massachusetts (September 2006 - Present).

ClassicsJacqueline Carlon and Emily McDermott - organized and hosted the “Conventiculum Bostoniense,” an intensive Latin conversation immersion program that was held the first week of August for  Latin-speakers from around the country.

Economics

Randy Albelda - conducted a 2.5 hour class on social policies in the US as part of the Abreu Fellows Program, New England Conservatory.  

Marlene Kim – traveled to Washington DC to give a Congressional Briefing on unemployment, long-term unemployment, and Asian Americans in the House meeting rooms to the press, Congressional representatives, staff, and aides on November 16.th

English

John Hess - was elected last October to the board of the Cetana Educational Foundation (cetana.org).  Cetana brings students from Burma to the US for university study (the first to UMB this Fall in the McCormack School) and runs three English language instruction schools in Burma.   Lloyd Schwartz – was on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and is involved in two events.

History

Jonathan Chu – served as the Exam Leader for the Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam. Also was the Chair elect for the College Boards.

Josh Reid – served on the Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference Planning Committee. He also was a board member of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University.

Performing Arts

CarrieAnne Quinn – Ryan Acting Coach & Festival Organizer at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Production Adjudicator for Region.

Philosophy

Lawrence Blum – was a Faculty Mentor for the Philosophy Outreach Program in partnership with CPCS and the Boys and Girls Club of Harbor Point, to run a weekly philosophy discussion group for middle and high schoolers residing at Harbor Point.

Nelson Lande – was the Chairperson for the Ethics Committee of the Elder Service Plan of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

International ActivityAmerican Studies

Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick - are teaching this summer at Remnin University in Beijing, with which UMass Boston has a developing relationship.

Anthropology

Ping -Ann Addo - (Author & Presenter) Oral Presentation, February 2011 Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Annual Meetings; Honolulu, Hawai‘i. “Tongan Textiles in Time and Space: Marking Tongan Temporal and Social Relationships in Tonga and Abroad.”, Annual Meetings, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, (February 11, 2011).

Jose Martinez Reyes - Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Tuukul Otsil Maak, AC, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico, (July 2011 - August 2011).

Stephen Mrozowski – lectured on The Pragmatics of Contemporary Archaeology in North America: Change, Continuity and the Deepening of History, Division of the Humanities, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland, (May 23, 2011). He also lecture on Henri Lefebvre and the Urban Condition, Henri Lefebvre et la question urbaine, University of Paris, Nantarre, (October 1, 2010).

Rosalyn Negron - (Author & Presenter) Paper, Personal Social Networks and Puerto Rican Identity, Puerto Rican Studies Association Bi-Annual Meeting, Puerto Rican Studies Association, (October 2010).

Applied Linguistics

Donaldo Macedo – was the key note speaker at the International Conference on Critical Pedagogy – Chihuahua, Mexico, June, 2011.ArtDavid Areford – was a Jury Member for the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards. (January 2011).

Pamela Jones - delivered the paper "Il Gusto dei Cardinali Borromeo, Giustiniani, e Del Monte per i paesaggi fiamminghi" at the Giornata di Studi "Alle Origini dei Generi Pittorici fra l'Italia e l'Europa attorno al 1600" at the Fondazione Ermitage Italia in Ferrara, Italy on September 12, 2011.

Elizabeth Marran – was a Guest Lecturer for the Center for Contemporary Art, in Prodgorica, Montenegro.Cat Mazza –presented “The Influencers, at the Visiting Artist Lecture at the Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Spain (April 2011).

Nancy Stieber – presented “Representing History and Empire in the Beurs of Berlage”, at the Meetings of Art and Empire at the Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (May 2011).

Economics

Kade Finnoff - presented a working paper titled 'Mapping the Contours of Debate: Internal Migration in India' at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore India on Tuesday January 10th 2012. 

Randy Albelda - was a participant at the international symposium "Women, Gender Equality and Economic Crisis" held at Pantheon University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece .

Julie Nelson - gave an invited lecture on "Feminism and Economics" at the Chinese Women Economists Research Training Program, Peking University, Beijing, China, in June 2011. She also gave a plenary talk on "Why Economic Issues are Ethical Issues" at a conference on "Rethinking Development: Ethics and Social Inclusion"  sponsored by UNESCO and the Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs of Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico, August 2011.  She also presented a paper entitled, "Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis? Implications for Teaching about Gender and Economics," at the Annual conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) in June 2011 in Hangzhou, China.

English

Lloyd Schwartz - participated in two conferences celebrating the centennial of Elizabeth Bishop. In Ouro Preto, Brazil, he gave the keynote lecture, “On Editing Elizabeth Bishop,” at the three-day conference “Dazzling Dialectics: Brazil in the Eyes of Elizabeth Bishop,” appeared on the panels “Memories of Elizabeth Bishop” and “Readings of Elizabeth Bishop,” reading her poems along with her Brazilian translator.

Rajini Srikanth and Louise Penner - Rajini Srikanth (Director of the University Honors Program; Professor of English) and Louise Penner (Professor of English) took 10 members of the International Epidemics Senior Honors Colloquium to Cape Town, South Africa for two weeks where they participated in an HIV/AIDS peer educator retreat with students and faculty from the University of the Western Cape and met with many HIV/AIDS and social justice community activists and medical personnel.

History Spencer DiScala – presented “Written Out of History: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and the Rise of Facism”at the University of Rome (Roma Tre) April 4, 2011.

Malcolm Smuts – presented “Churches Controversies and the Defense of a Protestant State in England and Scotland “, at the Durham History Department Faculty Seminar at the University of Durham (UK).

Performing Arts

CarrieAnne Quinn - “The Illustrious Adventuresses: a theatrical exploration of the ‘other voice’ in early modern Europe”, presented at: Transcultural. Transnational. Transformation: Seeing writing and reading performance across cultures 2011 at the Australian Association for Theatre Drama and Performances.

Philosophy

Lawrence Blum – presented “What is true and what is false in the idea of ‘race’?.” At the IDASA (democracy-promoting NGO in Cape Town, South Africa) (November 2010).

Danielle Bromwich – presented “Disclosure and Consent to Medical Research Participation at the Society for Applied Philosophy in Manchester (UK) (July 2, 2011)She was also a Visiting Researcher at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland for Scholarship/Research International. (March 30, 2011).

Mickaella Perina – was a Guest Lecturer at the [History, Memory, and Citizenship], Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, in Paris, France (May 25, 2011).

Psychology

Jane Adams - presented an invited seminar to the College of Public Health at Mahidol University in Bangkok.  She also lectured to their graduate students on March 20.  

Zsuzsa Kaldy and Erik Blasér - presented a poster at the 2012 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Jan 12-14, 2012, Budapest, Hungary, entitled “Red to green or fast to slow: Infants' use of equally salient static (color) versus dynamic (rotation speed) features in object identification.”

Sociology

Cinzia Solari - gave an invited talk at a conference at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.  The conference was a special gathering of experts, on “Transforming Gender Orders: Intersections of Care, Family and Migration.” Her talk was titled, “State Constructions of Migrant Careworkers in Ukraine: A Comparative Analysis.”

Women’s Studies Elora Chowdhury - presented, “Rescue, Religion, and Resistance: Feminist Critiques of War and Development in South Asia” Panelist at National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 13, 2011.

Research and Creative ActivityAmerican Studies

Bonnie Miller - published her first book, From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898, with the University of Massachusetts Press.

Marisol Negron – was the recipient of a 2012 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty.

Anthropology

Ping-Ann Addo -published “Between Tolerance and Talk: Idiomatic Kinship and Ethnography". Pacific Studies, 33(2/3), 259-279. She also published “Exhibiting Art, Exhibiting Community: Tongan Barkcloth, Identity, and Otherness in a Community Arts Project in California.” Pacific Arts, 10(2),

34-46.

Jose Martinez Reyes – was awarded a Grant, Climate Change and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) among the Maya of Quintana Roo, Mexico, Joseph Healey Grant, Awarded May 1, 2011, $7,000.00, (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012). He also published La Transformación del Paisaje Puertorriqueño y la Disciplina del Cuerpo Civil de Conservación 1933-1942. San Juan, PR. With Valdes Pizzini, M., and Gonzalez Cruz, M.

Stephen Mrozowski – was awarded a Contract, Chelsa Creek Battleground, National Park Service, in March 2011, for $36,000.00.

Rosalyn Negron – published Ethnic Identification among Urban Latinos: Language and Flexibility. El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing (2011). She was also awarded a Healey Faculty Research Grant, Office of the President, in June 2011, for $7,500.00, (June 2011 - May 2012).

Colleen Nyberg - published an article with Undurraga, E., Eisenberg, D., Magvanjav, O., Reyes-Garcia, V., McDade, T., Leonard, W., Tanner, S., Godoy, R. (2010). Individual wealth rank, community wealth inequality, and self-reported adult poor health: A test of hypotheses with panel data (2002-2006) from Native Bolivians. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 24(4), 522-548.

J. Schoenfelder (with N. Jha) (2011). Studies of the Subak: New Directions, New Challenges [Introduction]. Human Ecology, 39(1), 3-10.

Applied LinguisticsPanagiota Gounari – published “Critical Pedagogy and Peace Education: Understanding Violence, Human Rights, and the Historical Project of Militant Peace” in Bryan Wright and Peter Trifonas (Eds.), Critical Peace Education: Difficult Dialogues. New York: Springer.

Pepi Leistyna – published “Maintaining a Vibrant Synergy among Theory, Qualitative Research, and Social Activism in this Ever-Changing Age of Globalization”. New York, U.S.: Peter Lang Publishers. He also published “Class Warfare: A Dialogue with Pepi Leistyna”. Contesting Neocolonialism and Neoliberalism: Dialogues with Critical Pedagogues and Postcolonial Scholars. New York, U.S.: Pelgrave

Donaldo Macedo – published A Democracia Imposta: Dialogas com Noam Chomsky e Paulo Freire. Mangualde, Portugla, 2011. He also was awarded the U.S. Department of Education Title III Grant, July 1, 2010-July 1, 2011(year 5 of 5) for $290,672.00., with Mary Cazabon and Maria Lombardo, the U.S. Department of Education Title III Grant, July 1, 2010-

June 30, 20-11(year 5 of 5) for $290,672.00, and the U.S. Department of Education Title III Grant August, 2011(year 1 of 5) for $1,958,597.00.

Art

David S. Areford - delivered a lecture “Seeing Through Tears: The Cummer Mother of Sorrows and Empathy in Detail” at Brown University on October 11, 2011. His visit was co-sponsored by the Programs in Medieval Studies and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. 

Wilfredo Chiesa – One person art exhibit titled “The Deeps”(February 2011-March 2011) at the Jeffrey Leder Gallery, New York City.

Meredith Hoy – exhibited her art at an art festival called Electronic Art on the Waterways. (April 2011). She was also a committee member of the Visual Culture Consortium, Boston, MA.

Erik Levine – had a group showing of his art work at a short film and video festival (February 13, 2011).

Cat Mazza – had an art exhibit titled “The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft (March-June 2011).

Anne Torke – had a group art exhibit titled “Chain Letter” (July-August 2011).

Paul Tucker – published Kenneth Noland. New York: Mitchell-Innes and Nash (2010).

Classics

Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. - published an article- “A Depiction of a Comic Mythological Burlesque?” Seminari Romani di cultura greca 12.2 (2011), 253-70Jacqueline Carlon - was invited to be the John C. Rouman Lecturer at the University of New Hampshire. The title of her talk was "Beyond Wool and Chastity: Roman Women in Public View".  The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series at the UNH was created in 1997 by a generous gift from the Christos and Mary Papoutsy Charitable Foundation.

James Dobreff - held two lectures "Flora, Fauna and Bestiola: Daniel Rolander's Diarium Surinamicum" and "Copernicus, Rheticus and Valentius Otho: The Discovery of New Writings on Copernicus" 29 March at the University of Manitoba and 30 March at the University of Winnipeg respectively.

Economics

Emily Wiemers - received a grant from the Sloan Foundation in June 2011. The grant, which will run for two years (September 2011-August 2013), is on the topic of  Aging, Work, and Intergenerational Obligations.

David Timmons - His article "Estimating a Technically Feasible Switchgrass Supply Function: a Western Massachusetts Example" was published on-line in June 2011 in BioEnergy Research. http://www.springerlink.com/content/t86142w44904tm63/. Print publication is forthcoming.

Randy Albelda - received $50,000 from the Ford Foundation and $10,000 from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for the project "Linking youth development with parents’ low-wage work" through the Center for Social Policy. Prof. Albelda’s article "Time Binds:  US Antipoverty Policies, Poverty, and the Well-being of Single Mothers" was published in the most recent issue of the journal Feminist Economics.

Julie Nelson – her chapter on "Care Ethics and Markets: A View from Feminist Economics" appeared in print in August 2011 in Maurice Hamington and Maureen Sander-Staudt's (Eds.), Applying Care Ethics to Business, published by Springer. Her article "Does Profit-Seeking Rule Out Love? Evidence (or Not) from Economics and Law" has appeared in the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 35,2011, pp. 69-107.

Ghazal Zulfiqar, - article "Economy of Shame" (a review of the book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim) has appeared in the November/December issue of the Women's Review of Books (Vol 28, issue 6, pp. 6-7).

English

Rebecca Romanow – her chapter, “Refusing Migrant Subjectivity: Alternative Time and Space in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia” was published in Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory, by Rodopi Publishing, Amsterdam.  The book was edited by Murat Aydemir for the Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, and Race series which is edited by  Ernst van Alphen.        

Professor Jill McDonough - published two poems over the summer, "Married," in Filter Literary Review and "Preface" in the Harvard Review Online. Her poem "Dear Gaybashers" is in The Best American Poetry 2011, which came out in September She also published the following poems in May: Malahat Review, Spring, 2012:  "Transplant" and "In Which I Get a Migraine and Think of Hildegarde

von Bingen" Agni, Spring, 2012:  "Coffee for Everyone" Jai Alai, Spring, 2012: "Parties."

Askold Melnyczuk - Published novel excerpt from "SMEDLEY'S Secret Guide to World Literature" in Baum's Bazaar, a story, "Walk With Us" in The Massachusetts Review, and a brief essay about Heide Hatry's photographs of flowers constructed from offal (!)  in The Monarch Review.

Thomas O'Grady - published an essay on Elizabeth Bishop in The Worcester Review, a short story in The Nashwaak Review, and two poems in The Fiddlehead.  He also gave the keynote address on a program titled "They Came from Ireland" at the National Archives in Waltham.

 Rajini Srikanth - published Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law, Temple University Press.

Joe Torra - has a new poetry book, TIME BEING, which has just been published by Quale Press.

History

Paul Bookbinder – published “Wie es eigentlich gewsen” or Manufactured Historical Memory. The Journal of the Historical Society X(Number 4), 475-507.

Spencer DiScala – published “Salvemini in America,” in Gaetano Salvemini (1873-1957): Ancora un riferimento. Pp 263-73.

Ruth Miller – published “Therapeutic Death” in Austin Sarat, Karl Shoemaker (Ed), Who Deserves to Die?: Constructing the Executable Subject (pp. pp. 253-274) Amherst, MA, USA: University of Massachusetts Press, and “Violence Without Agency” in Sarat, Carleen R. Basler, and Thomas Dumm (Ed.) Performance of Violence (pp. pp. 43-68). Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. She was also awarded the Copeland Fellowship, Amherst College, April 15, 2010 for $50,000.00. September 1, 2010- June 30, 2011.

Josh Reid – article “Professor Igloo Jimmie and Dr. Boombag Meet the Heathens: Indigenous Representations and the Geography of Empire at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition”, was published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 101(3/4), 109-125.He was awarded the Diversity Fellowship – Postdoctoral, Ford Foundation, for $40,000.00.

Malcolm Smuts – published “International Politics and Jacobean Statecraft,” The Oxford Handbook of John Donne (2011) (pp. pp, 589-99)

Oxford and NY, UK: Oxford University Press, he also published “Jacobean Government” in Arthur Kinney (Ed.), Elizabethan and Jacobean England: Sources and Documents of the English Renaissance (pp. 47-56). Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley.

Julie Winch – published The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in Americ. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011. She also published “Borderlands of Empire, Borderlands of Race” in War, Empire and Slavery. Eds. Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyett and Jane Rendall. London: Pelgrave MacMillan, 2010.

Latin American and Iberian Studies

Reyes Coll-Tellechea - published her book, Lazarillo Castigado. Historia de un Olvido (1554-1573-1884). (Madrid, Ediciones Orto).

Esther Torrego - her article "The unaccusative case pattern of Hidi and auxiliary be," appeared in the international linguistic journal Lingua in February 2012.She also published her edited book: Of Grammar, Word and Verses, in the collection, Language Faculty and Beyond, Benjamins Publisher.

Modern Languages

Alex Desforges – published “Shangai Alleys, Theatrical Practice, and Cinematic Spectatorship: From Street Angel (1937) to Fifth Generation Film”. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 39(4).

Sari Kawana – published “Romancing the Role Model: Florence Nightingale, Shojo Manga, and the Literature of Self-Improvement”. Japan Review, 23, (pp. 201-226).

Performing Arts

Robert Lublin - published the book Costuming the Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture. He also directed a production of The Painter, written by John Shea, produced by JaVivico Productions and performed at the Unity Church last April in Somerville.

Jon Mitchell – conducted a professional ensemble, regular and selected radio broadcasts of professional CD’s. He also conducted a professional ensemble, regular. Mozart’s Spirit through Hadyn’s Hands.

David Pruett – Completed a few Full Chamber Recital Musical Performances on (October 1, 2nd and November 24th). He published “When

the Tribe Goes Triple Platinum: A Case Study Towards an Ethnomusicology of Mainstream Popular Music in the U.S.” Ethnomusicology, University of Illinois Press. 55 (Winter 2011).

CarrieAnn Quinn – performed a staged reading of MIA (Missing in Action) by Bruce J. Robinson. (February 2011). She directed the play, HEDDA by Lucy Kirkwood. (September 2010-October 2010).Philosophy

Adam Beresford – published “Erasing Simonides.” Aperion 12(3), 185-220.

Lawrence Blum – published “B5—it got all the drinks”: Schools and Education on ‘The Wire’. Darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture 4 special issues: The Wire files.He also published A ‘Crash’ Course in Personal Racism in Ward Jones, Samantha Vice (Ed.) Ethics at the Cinema (pp. 191-212). New York, USA: Oxford University Press.

Danielle Bromwich – published “How Not to Argue Motivational Internalism” in Thom Brooks(Ed.), New Wave in Ethics (pp.34) Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

Steven Levine – “Truth and Moral Validity: Habemas’ Domesticated Pragmatism”. was published in Constellations, Blackwell, 18(2), 244-259.

Lorna Rivera – published “Harmful Benefience” in the Journal of Moral Philosophy, 8(2), 25.

Lynne Tirrell – published “Forgiving Grave Wrongs” in Christopher Allers and Marieke Smit (Ed.), Putting Forgiveness In Perspective (pp. 43-65) Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi Press.

Christopher Zurn – along with Crosby, S.P., Kravetz, C., Stoia, J., and Tebaldi, D. was awarded a Grant, Civility and American Democracy, National Endowment for the Humanities, July 28, 2011 for $40,000.00. He published “Judicial Review, Constitutional Juries and Civic Constitutional For a: Rights, Democracy and Law” in In the Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 58(127), p. 63-94. He also had published “The Logic of Legitimacy: Bootstrapping Paradoxes of Constitutional Democracy”, Legal Theory,16(3), 191-227.

Political Science

Robert Weiner - published (ed.).World politics 12/13(McGraw-Hill publishers, 2013).

Psychology

Alice Carter – her work was cited by the foundation, Autism Speaks, as among the top 10 scientific achievements in 2011. Anne Douglass (College of Education and Human Development) and Alice Carter were just awarded a $61,000.00 grant from the MA Department of Early Education and Care Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant to conduct a research study on the professional development of the early education and care workforce. . She received a $40,000.00 Spencer Foundation grant entitled “Pathways to Resilience following Exposure to Violence in Early Childhood: Developmental Competence and School Readiness" for June 1, 2012-June 30, 2013.Ed Tronick - Cindy Liu and Ed Tronick also recently received notice that they were awarded a new grant for $228, 750.00 from NIH entitled “Hair cortisol as a biomarker of chronic stress in mother infant dyads” that will start July 1, 2012.

Sociology

Andrea Leverentz – “Being a good daughter and sister: Families of origin in the reentry of African American female ex-prisoners.” Feminist Criminology 6(4): 239-267.

Lakshmi Srinivas - received the 2011 Retired Faculty Endowment award to support her research on Indian cinema and her book under contract with the University of Chicago Press.

Phil Kretsedemas – his new book was published by Columbia University Press, The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation and the Limits of the Law (2012). His "Immigration Policy and Executive Power at Loose Ends: The Case of the US," was published in The European Financial Review.

Siamak Movahedi - Canadian psychoanalytic journal published an article coauthored by Gohar Homayounpour and Siamak Movahedi (2012). Transferential Discourse in the Language of the (M)other, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/ Revue canadienne de psychanalyse,  Vol. 20, No. 1, Pp. 114-143, Spring 2012. Siamak Movahedi and Glen Jacobs, Sociology "Death in the Service of Life: Individual and Cultural Projections and Practices." In Marcelline Block and Christina Staudt, eds., Unequal Before Death, 60-75. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2012).

Russell Schutt – had two new books published, Investigating the Educational World: The Process and Practice of Research. (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.) and Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research,7th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Women’s Studies

Elora Chowdhury - published of her book, Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh. Albany: State University of New York Press, Praxis: Theory in Action Series, 2011.